Police need public’s help to identify human remains found in Lake Mattoon

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URBANA – Illinois State Police is asking for the public’s help to identify human remains in Lake Mattoon.

On Sunday, boaters observed part of a human arm in the lake.

The arm includes tattoos of a skeleton holding a Green Bay Packers football helmet and an unknown letter or number.

ISP hopes this information will help identify the man.

Anyone with information is asked to call Illinois State Police at 618-542-2400 or email ISP.Zone8commander@illinois.gov.

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Illinois State Police released these pictures of tattoos from a human arm found in Lake Mattoon. Left: Tattoo of a skeleton holding a Green Bay Packers helmet; Right: Tattoo of unknown letter/number (Illinois State Police) Illinois State Police

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Reginald Hardwick

Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director at Illinois Public Media. He oversees daily newscasts and online stories. He also manages The 21st Show, a live, weekday talk show that airs on six NPR stations throughout Illinois. He is the executive producer of IPM's annual environmental TV special "State of Change." And he is the co-creator of Illinois Soul, IPM's Black-focused audio service that launched in February 2024. Before arriving at IPM in 2019, he served as News Director at WKAR in East Lansing and spent 17 years as a TV news producer and manager at KXAS, the NBC-owned station in Dallas/Fort Worth. Reginald is the recipient of three Edward R. Murrow regional awards, seven regional Emmy awards, and multiple honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Born in Vietnam, Reginald grew up in Colorado and is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado. Email: rh14@illinois.edu Twitter: @RNewsIPM